An expression a typical Harold McGee would use when asking his students to stop daydreaming about being a thousand miles away. Often used during important lectures.
When you're sitting there sweating bullets on the AP exam, I'm going to remember this day, how you didn't hear a word I said. You were off tubing in aruba, a thousand miles away.
The magical and totally unicorn cat of Brittany S. Pierce on Glee. Lord Tubbington only eats people food, nougat and glitter so he can poop candy bars, and at night (when he's not reading Brittany's diary) he sneaks off to smoke and get Arby's.
Brittany: Lord Tubbington got out and I found him at Arby's, how did you get into my room?
Rory the Leprechaun: Santana has just one wish - she wants you to quit Glee Club.
Brittany: Great - why couldn't she have just wished for Lord Tubbington to stop smoking?
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).